Which Cambridge fellowship did Turing win in 1935?

In 1935, Alan Turing won a fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of King’s on the strength of his dissertation, “On the Gaussian Error Function.”

Turing had entered King’s College in 1931 after winning financial support to study mathematics. He completed the undergraduate course with first-class honours and then produced the dissertation during his senior year. The work dealt with probability and proved a version of the central limit theorem, demonstrating mathematical ability far beyond his age.

The fellowship was especially significant because it gave Turing a permanent academic base at Cambridge. He later worked there as a lecturer and continued research into logic, computability and mathematical foundations. This fellowship should not be confused with his later time at Princeton University, where he studied for his doctorate under Alonzo Church from 1936 to 1938, or with his Cambridge student status before 1935.